SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp., founded in 2002, is an American space technology company and a dominant launch provider. It designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, including the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Dragon spacecraft, and Starship. SpaceX partners with organizations like NASA and the United States Armed Forces and is known for its advancements in reusable launch vehicles, human spaceflight, and satellite constellation technology like Starlink. Key words: launch provider, reusable rockets, space exploration, Starlink, Falcon, Dragon, Starship, NASA.
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SpaceX's potential IPO could raise $20–30 billion and value the company at $1.5 trillion.
Three organizations, Sankei Engineering, KDDI Research, and the National Institute of Polar Research, successfully transmitted 3D point cloud data and video in real time between Japan and Showa Station in Antarctica using SpaceX's Starlink service.
SpaceX was valued at $28 billion in May 2018.
As of the time of Shotwell's interview, SpaceX had not yet sent people or cargo to Mars.
The latest tender offer for SpaceX shares doubled the price, valuing the company at about $800 billion.
Investors are pricing SpaceX not as a standard aerospace contractor but as a technology monopoly with a valuation multiple of roughly 50 times sales.
Elon Musk has linked orbital data centers to SpaceX's Starlink constellation.
Reports in 2023 indicated that SpaceX was considering an IPO, possibly in the second half of the year.
K2 Space designs massive, high-power platforms intended to maximize the throw-weight capabilities of next-generation launch vehicles like SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s New Glenn.
One of the deployed satellites made a close pass to SpaceX's Starlink satellite STARLINK-6079 at an altitude of 560 km.
SpaceX is interested in an initial public offering (IPO).
SpaceX’s Vice President of Starlink Engineering, Michael Nicolls, alleged that no coordination or deconfliction was performed with existing satellites when the nine satellites were deployed.
United Airlines and Alaska Airlines have secured agreements with SpaceX’s Starlink for in-flight connectivity.
K2 Space plans to launch its Giga line of satellites, which require a super-heavy rocket like SpaceX’s Starship or Blue Origin’s New Glenn.
The discussions focused on the final stages of granting satellite internet licenses to Starlink's parent company SpaceX.
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) launched its 160th Falcon 9 rocket on December 10.
K2 Space is developing ultra-powerful, large-scale spacecraft by leveraging additional capacity from super-heavy launch vehicles like SpaceX’s Starship.
The launch was SpaceX's 165th launch in 2025 and its 605th launch overall.
These missions flew as part of SpaceX's Transporter-15 rideshare launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on November 28, 2025.
Liquidity generated by sales to AT&T and SpaceX has prioritized investor interest in EchoStar.